Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-20
DAILY HERALD.
A COLLISION.
A Runaway Team Dashes
Into a Street Car.
SEVERAL SEVERELY INJURED.
Miraculous Escape of q Baby and
the Driver-TwO Ladies
Hurt.

A very serious accident took place
yesterday afternoon, about half-past
one o'clock. on Main street hundred
feet south of First street. At that
time one of the cars of the Main
Street and Agricultural Park line was
proceeding southwark with about
eight passengers. As is the custom
the starter, f. A. Aiken, was driving
and the conductor, Charles Lambert
son, was preparing to collect the fares.
On this line the starter drives to GER
tain point and returns on the car going
in an opposite direction. Just as the
point was reached where the accident
occurred, Mr.. Aiken was startled to
behold team of large horses attached
to a heavy wagon used i'll hauling
brick, coming toward the car at a
rapid rate of speed. There was no
way to get the car out OF the way OF this
runaway team, nor no time to think
before t e two horses dashed against
the dashboard of the car and sprang
almost into its very center. The
driver was knocked over the DASH
board and the conductor was sent fly
ing to the side where he landed on his
head and side. The front end of the
car was completely wrecked and torn
almost to pieces by the horses which
struggled to free themselves from the
wreck. Sitting in the second seat was
young married lady named Mrs.
William Windheim. She held in her
arms an infant of less than year old
and as the wreckage came flying in
ward towards her, she had no time to
protect herself or babe. The front
posts of the car and other woodwork
fell inward and some one of the pieces
must have struck her in the face, for
when she was hauled out from be-
meath the rubbish by Officer Dan
Lynch who ran to the scene, it was
found that the left side of her face had
been crushed in, and on the floor
of the car was quite pool of blood
which had issued from her wounds.
She was carried into Aockerblum's
drug store where it was ascertained
that the left eye was probably de-
stroyed, the nasal and cheek bones
crushed, and that other injuries had
been received. By a singular freak,
the baby which she held in her arms
was picked up uninjured. When the
horses dashed against the car, Mrs.
Windheim, in her anxiety to save her
baby, held it high in the air over her
head and this fact probably saved its
life. Another lady, Mrs. r. Crause,
occupied a seat in the car, and the
force of the collision threw her to the
floor, cutting the back of her head
quite severely. The Conductor, Chas.
Lambertson, was severely injured by
his fall and probably by being hit on
the side of his head by one OF the tim
bers. His ear was nearly torn Off and
his head WAS so severely bruised
that he had not recovered the use of
his mind up to the time that his
father took him home in a hack. The
starter +. Aiken considering his posi-
ton on the car escaped very luckily
with only a bruise in his leg and Il
slight cut on his cheek. Charles Penn
berton one of the passengers was also
slightly cut on the side OF his head.
The other passengers were more or
less bruised Dut not SO seriously III
jured, and they quickly left the car
which had been derailed. The cause
of the disaster was perhaps accidental
but the opinion prevailed that it
might have been prevented with more
care in hitching the horses. r. FL.
Forster of No. 200 Also street was
in charge of the team with which
he had been hauling bricks
for new building ON Main street.
He stopped his team in front of the
Wright house, near Fourth street and
and tied them to a post supporting an
awning, He then went in to get
drink, and while he was inside the
horses pulled ON the rope, causing the
post to fall. This frightened the
team and they started on the run for
the center of town. When Foster came
out OF the building his team was gone
and the evil deed had been done.
The car horse was knocked under the
car and cut rather severely, and the
horses attached to the truck wagon
were also cut severely about the legs.